The thing about cities like Amsterdam is that bikes aren’t dominant, they coexist with everything else. I recently had the opportunity to drive a car there and it’s honestly great, because bike traffic is separated. Unlike back home where bike lanes are attached like a cancer to the road and you constantly have to fear those suicidal maniacs dropping in front of you. But that’s only because they have nowhere else to go, in Amsterdam they do and so the only time you have to worry about them is on a left turn out of a tight parking street, AKA once a trip MAX.
The thing about cities like Amsterdam is that bikes aren’t dominant, they coexist with everything else. I recently had the opportunity to drive a car there and it’s honestly great, because bike traffic is separated. Unlike back home where bike lanes are attached like a cancer to the road and you constantly have to fear those suicidal maniacs dropping in front of you. But that’s only because they have nowhere else to go, in Amsterdam they do and so the only time you have to worry about them is on a left turn out of a tight parking street, AKA once a trip MAX.